OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 5.00pm. FORMER President FW de Klerk has accused the Mail & Guardian of attempting to “smear” him and the New National Party on the eve of next Wednesday’s election, by revealing records which suggest he participated in a decision to have activist Matthew Goniwe murdered in 1984. Friday, 5.00pm: THE […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 3.00pm. TWO Zimbabwean journalists who allege they were tortured while in military detention early this year have formally laid civil charges against the police and army. Editor Mark Chavunduka and reporter Ray Choto, in a report carried in their paper the Sunday Standard, said they had filed their complaints with […]
HOLDERS Zambia were paired with Mozambique when the draw for the Castle Cup Southern Africa championship quarter-finals was made here on Saturday. The match offers the Zambians the chance to complete a hat-trick of home wins over the Mozambiqueans following a 2-1 triumph in 1997 and a 1-0 victory last year. South Africa will not […]
PRESIDENT-IN-WAITING Thabo Mbeki has told black business leaders a credible election on June 2 is critical to the economic growth that South Africa needs to wipe out the legacy of apartheid. “The matter of a free and fair election has become an important, indeed a strategic issue for this country,” he told members of the […]
THE government on Wednesday ordered all officials involved with the planning of the inauguration of the new president to have flu vaccinations on Thursday. The Department of Health decided to accept an offer by British Airways Travel for the almost 60 staff members of Inauguration 99 to receive the vaccinations at the Union Buildings in […]
THE draw for the quarter-finals of the Castle Cup Southern Africa championship doen in Gabarone on Saturday: July 4 – Lesotho v Angola July 18 – Swaziland v Zimbabwe July 31 – Namibia v South Africa August 7 – Zambia (holders) v Mozambique
LEHLO Ledwaba won the vacant IBF junior featherweight crown on Saturday, betaing Texan John Michael Johnson on points. Ledwaba won the first five rounds and the tenth to seal his victory at the Carousel in Hammanskraal. Ledwaba maintained the South African monopoly on the title and kept it out of the clutches of controversial American […]
SAM Ramsamy will be a member of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) reform commission meeting next week, the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (Nocsa) said on Thursday. Ramsamy, the president of Nocsa, will be one of 80 delegates on the commission which meets for the first time in Lausanne on Tuesday. The commission was […]
CONTEMPT for human rights remains embedded in the Zambian police force, whose officers shoot and kill as an alternative to arrest and routinely torture ordinary citizens as part of crime investigations, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. In a new report, released on the eve of a World Bank meeting that will discuss Zambia’s human rights […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 2.10pm THE Cape High Court on Friday began hearing an appeal by ex-president PW Botha against a conviction of contempt after his refusal to appear before the truth commission probing apartheid-era abuses. Botha, (82), is not attending the hearing, choosing to stay in his home town of George where […]
SEVERAL non-governmental organisations dealing with HIV-Aids in Namibia have expressed their support for a $100-million prevention programme launched in Johannesburg recently. Government has distanced itself from the project which targets Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa. The Director of Namibia’s Aids Care Trust, Apere David, told The Namibian this week that they are very […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 7.00pm. SUPERSPORT United took home a 2-1 victory in the BobSave Super Bowl, gaining the trophy and denying the Chiefs a Manchester United-style treble at FB stadium on Saturday. Chiefs will have to be satisfied with the Rothmans Cup and the League title, and neither team went out of their […]
WEST Indies pace bowler Franklyn Rose has been fined five percent of his fee for touring South Africa and told he will not play for the side again until he settles a hotel bill. Rose appeared before the disciplinary committee of the West Indies Cricket Board on May 22 in Antigua to answer three charges. […]
HEADS of state, royalty, prime ministers and a host of other dignitaries are set to arrive in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday, as preparations step up for ceremonies marking the end of military rule. Olusegun Obasanjo is due to be sworn in Saturday as Nigeria’s third elected president, ending more than 15 years of […]
INDIAN opener Saurav Ganguly’s 183 against Sri Lanka on Wednesday was the second highest individual score in World Cup history. Only Gary Kirsten’s 188 not out against the United Arab Emirates in 1996 surpassed it in World Cup play. Ganguly made it to fourth on the all-time one-day total list. Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar’s 194 against […]
FRIDAY, 2.00PM: THE National Association of Maize Millers and some agricultural analysts believe the agricultural free market is threatened by mistrust of the National Crop Estimates Committee. The figures issued by the committee directly affect forward prices for agricultural products. Critics believe it to be wrong for parties from the commodity trading community to be […]
INDIAN master blaster Sachin Tendulkar was deified by the Indian media on Monday for leading his country to a World Cup victory with a personal score of 140 not out despite the death of his father. The diminutive 26-year-old’s first performance on the pitch after his father’s death hogged the front pages of all Indian […]
BRITISH army soldiers and Royal Navy sailors were called up to help with security arrangements during the World Cup match between India and Sri Lanka in Taunton on Wednesday. Around 20 Royal Marines and sailors from HMS Somerset formed a protective guard as the players left the pitch at the end of India’s innings at […]
SUPERSPORT United and Kaizer Chiefs have nixed sales of beer at their BobSave soccer final on Saturday. The Premier Soccer League planned to attract crowds by selling beer at the match. Chiefs caoch Paul Dolezar worried about crowd control problems, and noted that alcohol is not allowed at football matches in Europe. SuperSport’s coach also […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: LANCE KLUSENER has been included at the eleventh hour in the squad to play Gloucester in a four-day match at the weekend, leading to speculation that he might be on the way to replacing the Test spot he vacated to Makhaya Ntini at the end of the South African season. The word from […]
POWER consumption surged to record levels in Sri Lanka last week when millions switched on their televisions to watch the World Cup cricket match between Sri Lanka and South Africa, state media said on Monday. The Daily News quoted Ceylon Electricity Board officials as saying that demand for power exceeded 1,200 megawatts as cricket-crazy Sri […]
MUCH was made of the importance of winning the toss before the cricket World Cup, with commentators predicting many matches could be decided by it. Sides put in by the opposition, the argument ran, would be at a major disadvantage, battling to survive as swing and seam bowlers exploited wickets made lively by early-morning moisture. […]
WHEN Lehlohonolo Ledwaba steps into the ring against Texan John Michael Johnson at the Carousel in Hammanskraal on Saturday night, he will be fighting for more than the vacant IBF junior featherweight crown. Ledwaba will not only be striving to maintain the South African monopoly on the title, he’ll also be aiming to keep it […]
Rian Malan Crossfire Before we take off the gloves here, let us pay tribute to Piers Pigou for having the courage to defend the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s finding with regard to the infamous Boipatong massacre, or at least attempt to deflect attention from its real nature (A Second Look, May 21 to 27). It […]
Doris Lessing joined the communist party in Rhodesia, left two children to go to England, and then explored mysticism. Emma Brockes finds the iconoclastic author has a talent to explore, move on and surprise It was in a caf in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, that Doris Lessing received her first, rather clumsily delivered death threat. This […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.00pm. Gary Teichmann has retained his Springbok captaincy in a 32-man squad named by coach Nick Mallett on Thursday. The number eight and Natal skipper missed the last four weeks of the Super 12 with a knee injury – which precipitated a captaincy scare. Also named is another key player […]
Gary Younge talks to South Africans who are thinking of moving to greener pastures At the entrance to the Sandton library, John Gambarana is doing a roaring trade in fear. With the help of an overhead projector and a few corny jokes the emigration consultant has taken just one hour to craft a psychological narrative […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby With apologies to Christopher Logue I shall vote for the ANC because Felicia Mabuza-Suttle says it will improve my image. I shall vote for the ANC because 65 murders a day isn’t nearly enough. I shall vote for the ANC because the ANC loyally supports Allen Boesak in his many Christian […]
A COMMERCIAL Bank of Malawi official has said that local and international investors are taking a “wait and see” approach to the June 15 elections. Fred Kanjo, the bank’s head of economic research, sayd investors have adopted a more cautious stance before making any firm investment decisions. Malawi has experienced a growth rate of about […]
Nashen Moodley Political parties in KwaZulu-Natal are making last-ditch efforts to woo a largely apathetic Indian electorate, using remarkably similar strategies. Opposition parties are attempting to convince the Indian population that it is a marginalised minority and are fuelling insecurity within a community already fearful of the triumvirate of crime, affirmative action and Africanism. Indian […]
Cameron Duodu Letter from the North The furore in South Africa over the right of the editor of the Financial Mail, Peter Bruce, to determine what political party the paper should support in the forthcoming election will amaze readers from the north. You see, we are not at all used to freedom of the press. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Friday 11.20am SOME 40 Libyan soldiers have flown into Uganda — uninvited — in a “premature” bid to impose peace in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, a Ugandan minister said on Friday. The Libyan foreign ministry announced on Thursday that “Libyan forces have arrived in Uganda to form the vanguard […]